[Question] speaker.play_notes() on Inventor Hub

[johnscary-ev3]

Question
I have been using speaker.play_notes() to play music on Inventor Hub.
It works great, but I have a couple questions:

1. Is there a way to use it in a non-blocking way so I can do other things while playing a long tune?
2. Will there be a way to control the volume?

Context
Would like to play tunes while moving around or taking some other actions.

Thanks.

[dlech]

For now you have to write your own async code like this. Having a built-in way to do this is farther down our roadmap (i.e. Pybricks v4).

Volume control should be possible in the shorter term though.

[johnscary-ev3]

Thanks for the 'background music', music.py, program.
That works great integrated into my program.
I was thinking that timers and yield statements would probably be needed.
Now I just need to do the same thing to other parts of my program running motors at the same time ;0)
I think I know how to do that using motor.control.done() and yield statements also.

Volume control would be nice when working on the robot late at night ;0)

[laurensvalk]

@johnscary-ev3 , would you like to investigate if we have all the functionality you asked for? With some luck, we can close it within 5 years 🎂 .

[johnscary-ev3]

We have volume control and a non-blocking way, and an await way to do play_notes so I think we are good on this.

However, I am now wondering if Prime Hubs can support the voice and other special sounds, like we had on ev3. Those were very cool.